Barbara Black Koltuv

I only managed to get through about a third of this book, with some light skimming of the rest of the text. I couldn't tell what the author was trying to accomplish. There's a lot of rambling about semi-Kabbalistic magical objects, a scattering of statements that all humans use amulets in the same way, and an overarching lack of historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity.

This book is very much not for me.

A more profound and /or extensive bibliography would have made this book ever better, since, unfortunately, the bibliographical notes and the citations are the good part that came from Koltuv's pen, making it tiresome read. The Book of Lilith is written around citations from several sources, both historical and belles-lettres, making this a pretty decent secondary reference book but nothing, simply nothing saves it from being just that. Hardly the book of Lilith.